The app you want is by a developer named Furnaghan.) Open that sucker up, and take a minute to poke around through the options. (Open the Play Store app on Android TV, then search for that title and install it. Ready? All you've gotta do is download an app called Photo Screensaver onto your Android TV box. The Android TV-Google Photos screensaver solution In fact, it's actually quite a bit better than the native implementation on Chromecast. And sure enough, I found a pretty simple workaround for getting Google Photos to work as the screensaver on an Android TV device. But let's save that discussion for another time, you handsome devil.'Īnd so I started digging.
Find a way.'Īnd then I thought, 'You know, it's kinda weird that you address yourself by name when you're talking in your own head. You write a column about Android stuff, for Goog's sake.
I actually considered aborting our Android TV experience entirely when I dug through our new Mi Box's settings and discovered there was no option to create a custom screensaver with Google Photos. And when it comes to Google, logic doesn't always apply. Well, it turns out I forgot one critical fact: This is Google we're talking about.
